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Map of the area from about 1865.  Note the rail line across the Missouri river, just north of De Soto where eventually the town of Blair would spring in 1869 and a railroad bridge would span the river in 1883.  [map source]

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Map of the area from about 1865.  Showing Probable Line of the Cedar Rapids & Missouri Railroad across the Missouri river, just north of De Soto  [map source]

Map (c. 1876) central eastern Nebraska showing the lands of the Burlington & Missouri River R.R. Co. in Nebraska  [map source]

 

Plat Maps    Plat Maps & Atlas
 
wash_map.jpg (415630 bytes) blair11.jpg (385593 bytes) blair1a.jpg (246544 bytes) detail_blair.jpg (424768 bytes)
 
Survey Maps [more]
1879_river_map_detail.gif (150263 bytes)

1879_river_map_w.pdf

Map of the Missouri River from surveys made, in accordance with acts of Congress approved June 18, 1878 and March 3, 1879, under the direction of Major Chas. R. Suter

 

johnson_nebraska_dakota_colorado.jpg (219374 bytes)

1856 Survey Maps 1974.pdf

24_1890.pdf

blair_area.pdf

Blair_map.pdf  
Washington County Map.pdf

mo_river_1940s.pdf

 

 

U.S. Geological Survey
Topographic Maps

for Local Area

Principal_Merid.jpg (1975196 bytes)
 
Sanborn Maps [more]

 

Renaming the streets 
 

http://www.davidrumsey.com/detail?id=1-1-28924-113012&name=Blair,+Neb.

http://www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Nebraska/?page=5

http://www.hallcountyne.gov/content.lasso?page=7427

 
 

 

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